BBC News - Silicon Valley's billion dollar start-up failures

BBC News - Silicon Valley's billion dollar start-up failures: Hammering that home, a recent CB Insights survey found some 42% of failed start-ups blamed their demise on a basic lack of a market need for their product.



which is why we have HCI.

Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable HCI

This is an interesting paper which shows how clustered around particular topics sustainable HCI is.



The calls for further connection with outside fields is significant. If I had time I would like to review the papers listed in this paper. I have always been surprised about  the number of behaviour change papers labelled as sustainable HCI.



From my point of view what makes sustainable  HCI different from traditional HCI is we are trying to control technology. That is deliberately promote technology which already has a cheaper alternative (oil,gas) in many ways you can think of this as fair trade technology. Normally you want you technology to recede into the background, much as the case for pervasive interaction. Fair trade technology wants to reverse this process it wants you to become more aware of a particular technology and therefore choose it over another despite being less objectively competative. In which case of fair trade goods, we are willing to pay more in order to support social goals. Green technology is a fair trade technology. We want you to choose this technology over other technologies on the basis of some quality ( in this case environmental impact).

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While doing other research I came across these European standardised future scenarios for ambient intelligence.



Is this just me or do they feel a little spooky and weirdly dystopian ?

The quote that defines HCI.

From An Architecture for the Integration of Physical and Informational Spaces: a quote which sums up HCI research in one sentence.



"While computer processing power, storage capacity, and bandwidth are continuing to experience exponential growth, individual human processing capabilities are not increasing significantly."

Google I/O 2014 - Polymer and Web Components change everything you know ...

A very cool bit of software - it Basically takes the mess of HTML JavaScript and CSS and turns it into a series of consistent 'things' or objects.  Naturally everything they've done is everything that software engineering did when they invented sensible programming languages. With this we've moved from basic and goto to Pascal.   - it might even make programming the web fun again. 



look out for  'fun'damental 



Notes 

http://bower.io



http://jqueryui.com

The first rule of user research is not to listen to users (observe their behaviour)

▶ Google I/O 2014 - Perfectly executing the wrong plan - YouTube:



Nice Talk.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1KKsLukIBE

Putting the "User" back in User Experience

Putting the "User" back in User Experience:

Putting the "User" back in User Experience from Jeremy Johnson

Putting the "User" back in User Experience from Jeremy Johnson

"Unable to determine SimDeviceSet, set_path=" - Google Search

Why do I get



 "Unable to determine SimDeviceSet, set_path="

Whan I try to make a new simulator to test something with

and
"SourceCache/DVTiOSFrameworks/DVTiOSFrameworks-6268/DTDeviceKitBase/DTDeviceKitBase_Utilities.m:1146’"

when I create a new project ?
with the new Xcode. ?